An examination of the causes of traumatic brain injury, the mechanisms of primary and secondary injury, and how those injuries are evaluated and classified.
Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, David Munson, MD, and Wynne Morrison, MD
The way that we choose how to frame the conversation with parents about halting or continuing such therapy for their children who will not recover has special importance in medicine and in society.
Physicians do not have to give therapies or perform procedures that they judge to be futile and Catholic patients have the moral right to determine what is extraordinary or ordinary care.
Diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a childhood-onset problem of hyperactivity, inattention and impulsiveness that may persist into teen years and even beyond, affecting girls as well as boys.